I'm offering a free BOS start edition key to anyone who wants it. You get 2 planes to start and have to unlock the others through single player accomplishments but hey, its free so..... If you want it let me know.

Hello gec! Ok update. I went through the laborious process of using the G2A resolution center. After several exchanges with the seller, and after providing them with all the info they wanted (too much actually) I was finally issued a refund. I still have the start edition game key registered to my il-2 BOS account so I basically got the game for free. However, thinking this might be just the case with this one particular seller, and getting tired of waiting for responses, I purchase a second copy from another seller through through the same sales page. Result was, the same thing, start edition key. The sales page clearly states 8 planes included and says nothing about start edition which to my knowledge seem to be only available in RUS.
This was just a matter of deception, or perhaps ignorance on the part of G2A and the sellers and not gec's fault at all. I got a free copy of the game out of it, though I'll have to unlock the planes through single player accomplishments. I have a second unused key for this "start" edition, so if anyone wants it, I'll be glad to donate it.

Hi Arthur, bought it from G2A and after plugging the provided key into the BOS site my account shows "start edition" activated. Seems this was a special edition only offered in Russia? Since my internet kind of sucks now that I moved out to the country (satellite), its better for me to download at night which I haven't done yet, so the game isn't installed. I did shoot and email to 1C support and here's their reply. Looks like you get 2 planes to start and have to unlock the other 6 through the campaign thus essentially bring you up to standard edition perhaps?
Hi,
Initially, you only get 2 aircraft. The remaining 6 aircraft you can get during the campaign
You will not be able to use the option "ACTIVATE UNLOCKS" http://il2sturmovik.com/activate-unlocks
Detailed description "Start Edition" is available on its DVD-box and on our website http://forum.il2sturmovik.ru/topic/2257-opisanie-startovogo-i-standartnogo-izdanij-ig/ r on DVD-box games
It is impossible to improve the "Start Edition" to "Standard Edition" or "Premium edition"
As the details from the link are in Russian, here's the translation via Google.
- Start edition contains two aircraft : LaGG -3 29th and a series of Bf 109 F- 4 - Another 6 aircraft ( Yak - 1, 69 -series , the Bf 109 G- 2 , IL - 2 AM- 38 (Model 1942 ) , the Ju 87 D- 3 , the He 111 H- 6 , Pe- 2 87 Series ) is available for free in the game , passing career. - It is also possible to purchase 2 additional premium aircraft La - 5 and FW 190 A- 3 in our store http://il2sturmovik.ru/store/ - This publication contains the key for the version of the game from the site to Steam it is not suitable . - Drive to the game is not required . - Release Date November 19, 2014
All in all, I'm fine with this as I'll pretty much exclusively be playing offline anyways. But its good information for anyone thinking they will just buy this and hop online with you guys having all 8 planes unlocked straight away.
I'll be sure to pick up the La 5 and the FW 190 when the go on sale sometime, but this ought to keep me busy for a while.

Been having a bit of fun with a free program called World of Guns lately. The basic concept is you take firearms apart and reassemble them. The attention to detail is surprising. You can take guns apart to their most basic components and race the clock putting them back together. There's also animations of the functionality. Give it a go, I'm sure some of you will enjoy it if you haven't already seen it.
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Thanks FT. Your line of thinking is correct. Just prior to your post I did go into the bios and changed a bunch of PCI/PCIE related settings. They weren't exactly under the same terms as the ones you posted but BIOS naming conventions are often less then standardized. I also put in my Win 7 disk and did a startup recovery which took about 3 seconds to complete. Rebooting and is working fine now. Just wish I hadn't had to reboot my machine about 30 times through this whole ordeal. Thanks again.
Normally I wouldn't have upgraded from a GTX 670 to a 770 however I just built my son basically the same machine I have (less memory, fewer hard drives) and decided to give him my 670 as well. Should be seeing a good hick in FPS as my old card was a reference model 670, and my new one is..... well..... not.
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The following is what I posted over at the Tech Support Forums. I'm usually not asking for a whole lot of help on these issues but I'm willing to try anything that will save me from a complete re image. It may be that I just need to try and run a Windows repair but still like so input first.
Dear God, I need some serious help here. Windows 7, purchased a new 700 series Nvidia graphics card of which my previous card was also Nvidia but 600 series. Prior to installing the new card I uninstalled all Nvidia drivers save for a few that stated they required a reboot to be uninstalled completely. Then, being the idiot that I am, instead of rebooting and completing the uninstall process, shut down the machine and installed the new Nvidia (700 series) card. Upon reboot, my machine will post however after the post the screen in completely black. Windows 7 continues to boot as can be seen from the HDD activity however I have absolutely no video. I've tried most all of the ports on the back of the video card with several monitors and still nothing. The card seems to be working as I get the post and self test screens just fine but then nothing. I then went into my BIOS and set the integrated graphics to the priority display and enabled the GPU within the CPU (i5 3570k) which I believe are something like the 4000hd or something. Tried all the related ports on the motherboard and I get the same result. Post, self test, then nothing. I've tried putting the original graphics card back in as well but still nothing. To me, its looking like the video drivers have become so borked that Windows doesn't know what to do. I would have thought the integrated graphics would have worked no matter what but alas this is not so. I can't even get to safe mode. Well, I can probably get there but I can't see anything so it is useless. Worst case scenario, I have a complete system backup with Macrium Reflect. I could potentially put in the old card, restore the whole system and then start over, this time not being lazy. I'd like to avoid this if at all possible though as its going to be a bit time consuming, potentially risky and a hell of a hassle. As stated the machine seems to be loading Windows fine, there is just no video. Please, please, please. help if you can. Thanks.